Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is, through the predeliction of intrinsic motivation, internal, not external to that which can be termed 'the whole'--is, in my opinion--keeping in mind that `my', syntactically defined, is a product of the environment as all thought must of course first be intimated in a priori ontological social funtions--a darn good painting...
YEARS OF Hope, Days of Rage, by Todd Gitlin '63, is a thoughtful and intricate study of Sixties radical politics and culture, melding vivid personal reminiscences of that most tumultuous of decades with rigorously acute political and social analysis. The author, currently a media critic and associate sociology professor at Berkeley, was one of the early presidents of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War, and an observer or participant in many of the signature events of the decade...
...GITLIN also argues that, despite the turmoil and tragedy of the period itself and the radical movement's undignified implosion in the Seventies, the Sixties left a potent political and social legacy that continues to operate in our own day, in forms such as a liberalized racial and sexual climate and a powerful social counterweight against Executive warmaking...
...King estate wins its suit, the documents will most likely be housed at the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Action in Atlanta, Pierce said...
Carol Brill, a spokesman for the National Association of Social Workers, said that "welfare recipients are being asked to eat the scraps on the table of plenty in Massachusetts." Brill added that inflation and foodstamp reductions will negate any increase in welfare spending...